At least she didn’t pawn off the responsibility. Now she just needs to rook alive. If she does, it’ll be a knight to remember. Here’s bishop-ing for a quick victory. Regardless, we’re all queen on knowing what’ll happen next. I, for one, king hardly wait.

I just thought I’d mention in passing that your comments really should be put in check. You seem very taken with your witticisms. While I’m sure you think it’s a clever gambit, in time you’ll find it only promotes sloppy wordplay, Mate.

Your Checkered post seems to hold a Monopoly of all possible chess puns. I can only hope you’ll Connect For another try at this because there’s still some Trouble out there that someone, I can’t Guess Who, might find a Clue to Reversi this situation to Go and trap you in a Mouse Trap.

I had actually forgotten that Harry Potter had that chess event that one time. They didn’t exactly invent it, and I don’t know that Harry Potter is generally deeply associated with Chess in anyone’s mind. We should be good.

I always cheat in the chess event in Tales of the Sword Coast. Just kill them from across the board.

Was there a chess event in neverwinter or Baten Kaitos? I feel like those two games might have had a chess event.

Yeah, we’ve got mirrors and giant chess sets. Now all we need is a three headed dog, a devil’s snare, flying keys, and a logic puzzle involving bottles of poison, and if the gang gets through all that, they’ll finally find the Philosopher’s Stone.

Didn’t notice until you mentioned it, but yeah. That’s really odd. Especially because the rooks on opposite corners have the same armaments, so it looks like the symmetry is along the line A1 to G8, but the kings and queens are still opposite each other in the same files. Trippy.

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